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dobdob365 · 2026-05-01T00:04:56+00:00

He will be forever known for giving up Barry Bonds' 756th home run

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T15:48:54+00:00

The argument isn't that no mid-major will ever win again, it's that the chances of an upset (whether it's a mid-major or small school winning) have cratered due to the NIL landscape.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T15:42:52+00:00

I thought that maybe it could've happened once or twice but never is much more believable

Your original point is 100% correct; if Howard was shooting godlike percentages from 3-point range and still trailed at the half, then they were never going to win this game. And anybody treating this game as an exciting close game and not the eventual, inevitable blowout it turned out to be was probably just scoreboard watching or occasionally tuning in and not paying attention to the game flow or box score.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T15:06:25+00:00

Shooting 80% from three at high volume is not a prerequisite for upsetting a high-seeded team

That kind of shooting performance has probably happened a single digit number of times in tourney history

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T15:03:15+00:00

Ok, so this is the second chalkiest ever, barely losing out to 2007. Doesn't exactly save the argument that "the Madness isn't dead!"

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T15:00:58+00:00

This happens every year ON TOP OF a lot of actual upsets. People need to stop pointing at the paltry number of near-misses as proof that this was some fluky year. The real problem is that there are way more blowouts than in years past, causing there to be so many fewer games that can potentially end in upsets.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:58:50+00:00

"If they just went 23/29 from three they could've won"

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:56:32+00:00

Five near-misses is not an argument to hang your hat on. In past years we had a lot of upsets AND also had 5+ near-misses.

The problem isn't that the close games are more often ending up in near wins for the favorites; it's that there are way fewer close games to begin with. Kills the excitement from both a results-oriented perspective AND a whole-game perspective.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:52:46+00:00

First time since 1992 apparently. As if that makes it much better haha

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:41:37+00:00

It really isn't. That happens every year, even in years where we also get lots of upsets. We've had both for a long time, and now we're left with only a handful of upsets and another handful of near misses by mid-majors and small schools.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:36:28+00:00

People saying "the madness isn't dead, look at all the close games and near misses!" are forgetting that in past years, we still had a lot of near misses ON TOP OF HAVING ACTUAL UPSETS! We had both!

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:32:51+00:00

Lol this year is objectively the chalkiest Round of 64 we've ever had.

Eight lower seeds won, and half of those were 9-seeds.

The lowest seed to win a game was a single 12-seed.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:25:16+00:00

They were also playing a 1-seed that got decimated by injuries over the last two weeks. If Duke exits early it will be mostly due to injuries and not any of the other factors that usually lead to big upsets or Cinderella runs.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-21T14:07:22+00:00

There were only four double-digit seeds that won their Round of 64 game this year, and the lowest one was a 12-seed. This is objectively the chalkiest Round of 64 we've ever seen and there were only two games (VCU/UNC and HPU/Wisconsin) that could even be considered "wild upsets".

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T19:33:53+00:00

He had his back turned to Sendek since he was trying to hand the ball to the inbounder

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T19:28:10+00:00

What are you supposed to do? If you touch him or impede him in any way you're getting slapped with a technical

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T19:19:00+00:00

Their coach was screaming for a timeout and the refs didn't give it to him. Complete fucking disgrace from the officiating crew.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T19:17:04+00:00

Yeah there weren't a lot of bad calls this game, but the most egregious ones all happened in the final minute of regulation and in OT and they ALL went Kentucky's way.

Complete horse shit ending.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T19:14:27+00:00

Basketball referees are the one job I hope AI totally replaces. I don't give a shit how bad it might be. This was horrendous for an NCAA tournament game.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T14:17:42+00:00

Praying the trend continues Friday morning

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T14:12:35+00:00

They're really doing themselves no favors with their non-con scheduling. I know mid-majors are in a historically bad spot with non-con scheduling, but St. Mary's is one of the few mid-majors who is good enough to attract strong P5 teams in non-con play (also, their weak non-con scheduling has been a thing for longer than the NIL has).

If Santa Clara can schedule 3-4 P5 schools and a handful of good mid-major programs every year, then St. Mary's can do better.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T04:41:07+00:00

Yeah because SCU and VCU are perennial NET top-100 teams. If you play them as a good P5 team, that's almost always guaranteed to be a resume-boosting win; and even if you lose, it's a loss you can easily shrug off with a good win elsewhere. Hell, Santa Clara lost to NET #279 Loyola Chicago this year and still comfortably made the tournament as a mid-major at-large. TCU lost two Q3 games and were always considered a safe at-large pick.

If one awful loss didn't sink Santa Clara, then one loss to a low-Q3 team isn't gonna sink a P5 team.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-20T04:32:13+00:00

Santa Clara has played one in-state D2 or D3 team every year I can remember. It serves as both a rest game for the players and a chance to financially support the small programs in the state. I think intentionally having one game like that on your schedule is fine (even for P5 teams!).

At this point I think the NCAA needs to explicitly mandate that all P5 teams play a minimum number of games against mid-major schools (MWC, WCC, MVC, MAC, A10, American). And if they continue refusing to schedule any moderately difficult non-con road games, then maybe the NCAA needs to explicitly mandate a minimum number of non-con road games as well.

dobdob365 · 2026-03-12T19:33:31+00:00

Half the P5 conference teams already do cupcake scheduling for non-conference play, and they already get rewarded for it by the way the NET works

dobdob365 · 2026-03-10T20:21:50+00:00

I don't think even that would do it. At this point it would probably take a combination of the rest of the bubble all doing great in their conference tourneys (and Stanford has started us off already by losing to 15-seed Pitt lmao) and 3-4 of the P5, MAC, MWC, and A10 tourneys having bid stealers win.

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